The urban and rural cultural area : diachrony and synchrony of topos and literature
Vol.25,No.1(2022)
Abstract
Keywords:
cultural area; landscape; Prague; F. X. Svoboda; West Moravia; catholic and avant-garde poetics
Pages:
111–124
The author of the present reflection demonstrates the significance of the urban and rural cultural areas as a mirror of synchrony and diachrony as conflicting principles revealing the permeation of the past and the present. This situation is being demonstrated on the material of the work of the Czech novelist F. X. Svoboda, especially on his novels depicting the urban environment of Prague towards the end of the 19th century and on the cultural area of West Moravia where the leading Czech 20th-century poets were born in villages or province towns realizing the image of this landscape. The specific feature of this cultural area is a potential to synthetize often contradictory poetics, e. g. Catholic and avant-garde.
cultural area; landscape; Prague; F. X. Svoboda; West Moravia; catholic and avant-garde poetics
111–124
